Will looking at a video of a solor eclipes hert your eyes?

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Answer 1

No.

The light that comes out of your TV or monitor is the light that is generated by your TV / Monitor. The light is NOT generated by the sun/moon/eclipse.

If you're not sure whether to believe me, think about this...  If a TV / Monitor could damage someone's eyes, then the manufacturer would have been sued by now.

This does NOT mean that it is safe to look at an eclipse through the viewfinder of a camera / video camera (but you CAN of course look at the LCD screen on a camera/video camera safely).

Answer 2

No, of course not. The brightest light a computer screen can produce is when it's displaying pure white. If you didn't hurt your eyes looking at the heavy usage of white on Yahoo Answers pages, you're not going to hurt your eyes looking at eclipse videos! Seriously, if it were possible to damage someone's eyes with a video, don't you think people would use it to send malicious pranks around? Imagine getting "eclipserolled"...

Answer 3

It depends on if they put special effects on it.  If you video tape something that bright, you are supposed to dim the brightness of the camera picture so it won't hurt people's eyes.

Answer 4

Not at all. I checked. :)

Looking at them live is a different matter. Don't look at one directly.